U+A6BF "ꚿ" Bamum Letter Yoq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꚿ
U+A6BF "ꚿ" Bamum Letter Yoq is a character from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon, Africa. This particular letter represents the sound "yoq," a syllable or phoneme in the language, and belongs to a richly ornate syllabary that evolved through several historical stages under the reign of King Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the cultural heritage of the Bamum script, enabling digital representation and accessibility for scholars and modern speakers working to revitalize the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A6BF |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Yoq |
| Block | Bamum |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꚿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꚿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9A 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA6BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A6BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua6bf |